Welcome to Windows 7 Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find support and solutions for any problems regarding your Windows 7 PC be it Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. We also provide an extensive Windows 7 tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks.

You can do that in paint, if you'd like to...personally I prefer programs that give me more"lee way" like Zoner Photo Studio 12..which I found here: FREE Great Programs for Windows 7
If all you'd want is setting a picture as a desktop background: just drag/drop it into Internet explorer or Firefox, right click it and click "Set as background" .
(I just tried it in paint and it worked without a hitch. So I didn't get any save request ??)

Edit: Sorry if the clip was bigger I would have used a thumbnail from the start. No need to use an extra program

Integrates directly into the Windows 7 shell so you can just right click -> resize whatever pictures are highlighted. Could not be simpler or cleaner and better than installing more third party software.

Imported pictures using Picasa 3 - the pictures became grey boxes!?!So, I imported my photos from my SDCard to my PC using Picasa 3, and everything was going smoothly... until I tried to take a look at the photos! all of the photos that I've imported using this method for some reason all became greyed out! Viewing them on Picasa3, all you can see is a grey...

Music, Pictures & Video

Outlook email resize pictures?Hi,
I used to manage to select pictures in Microsoft Office Picture Manager, click E-Mail and select what size, it would then put them into a Outlook mail ready.
The problem now is it does not do this and I cannot find out why?
I can add the pictures manually via Outllook, but then they are too...

Microsoft Office

Multiple picture directories. Pictures, My Pictures.How can I remove all references to subdirectory MyPictures on my C:\ drive?
Last year I did a clean install of Windows 7 Enterprise. I then copied my data files to the C:\ Drive. These directories and files were created with XP Professional so my photo files were under My Pictures\2010.
...

Installation & Setup

Pictures have to 'load' everytime I open up My PicturesAs soon as I click 'Pictures' to open up my pictures folder, it'll take about 5 seconds for everything load completely. It'll start with a full screen of pictures, then they'll start stacking and stacking , and lastly all of my folders will then load an pop up an it'll be done. Is there any way to...